Grist

MAY 30, 2024

Colleagues, particularly those who had not ever been pregnant, implied she was wasting her time. On an individual level, Ojiaku advises her patients, as early as possible in their pregnancies, to keep cool, stay hydrated, and limit work-related heat exposures as much as possible.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

The consequences of that imbalance are felt in water cycle disruptions, sea-level rises, far stronger storms and the spread of tropical diseases northward, he noted. What’s more, Gore observes that we’re still emitting 152 million tons of heat-trapping pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Cracks in aging and poorly maintained pipes are being inundated , leaving plumbing unable to carry away stormwater and waste. Along the Vermilion River in Illinois, it is seeping into unlined pits containing coal ash — a hazardous waste — and carrying heavy metals into drinking-water aquifers. Pavement is degrading faster.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Jeanne Yacoubou has broken down the numbers concerning climate change in 2019 , and we’ve seen how Miami is fighting against sea-level rise.

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

companies and 80% of major global companies will face moderate physical risk due to wildfires, water shortages, and sea level rises by 2050. There is also progress in sustainable aviation fuel, which can be made from used fats, oil and agricultural waste. Nearly 95% of major U.S.

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The City Fix

JULY 26, 2023

Climate change is impacting cities and their residents in many profound ways, from poor air quality to flooding to biodiversity loss and extreme heat. Now, with the help of a new tool, select cities can access localized, integrated data to.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 19, 2020

To address ocean waste, the designers have proposed using submarine robots to collect plastic ocean debris and repurposing the waste as raw material for 3D printing construction materials. The islands are also punctuated by bubble-like structures that house seawater purification and freshwater storage systems.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We now have less than seven years to cut emissions in half in order to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C, the limit scientists say is necessary for averting some of the most dangerous climate impacts. 2022 saw flooding, drought and severe.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2022

It's just common sense that we have to get off gas and firstly that means wasting less which in turn means properly insulating our homes. "The gas crisis is the reason energy bills are going up and it will be adding an extra £2,000 come October," he said.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

But climate resilience remains a much less chartered territory for firms, with sustainability strategies typically focusing on water, carbon, and waste reduction, and having little or nothing to say about climate resilience. At the local level, overheating or flash flood risks can vary from street to street and building to building.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

It said it would aim to deliver twice as many plant-based foods per meal and set an objective of zero food waste by sizing quantities, designing recipes that reduce the risk of waste, and recycling 100 per cent of non-consumed food. WMO raises alarm over latest climate records.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

We’re fighting to minimize the impacts of sea-level rise and intensifying hurricanes, where NOAA just put out a report that hurricane intensity increased 8 percent a decade over the last 40 years. “It’s triage at this point,” Helvarg explained. ” Given U.S.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Accordingly, it retained key elements of the state-wide drought emergency, including the ban on wasteful water uses, existing groundwater directives, emergency measures for drought-stricken watersheds like the Klamath and Colorado Rivers, and a state of emergency across all 58 counties to facilitate ongoing drought response and recovery.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 23, 2019

They also single out a study which suggests sea levels could rise more than two meters by the end of this century. s National Oceanographic Centre, the costs of sea level rise could exceed $14 trillion a year by 2100. The report makes it clear that we have no time to waste. According to the U.K.’s

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. It then evaluates the sustainability of current practices and elaborates on technological developments in the two sectors, before critically assessing options to treat wastes generated from the plantation and milling process.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The situation, too, is only set to worsen as the planet warms, underscoring the urgent need to simultaneously drive down greenhouse gas emissions while also boosting preparedness for droughts, wildfires, storms, floods, coastal erosion, sea level rise, resource shortages and much, much more.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Harmful Wastes” Shell’s knowledge of the risks posed by the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels can be traced to at least the early 1960s. At a time of mounting public concern over nuclear safety, the authors drew a striking parallel between the dangers posed by CO2 and radioactive waste.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Most people understand the general impacts of climate change: sea-level rise, worsening weather events, severe heat, etc., Sea ice contributes to the Earth’s albedo and reflects energy back into the atmosphere. There is no time to waste. He couldn’t be more correct.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Despite the long backlog of hazardous sites that need to be cleaned, Trump wants to cut funding to the Superfund which allocates money for cleaning up hazardous waste. He wants to cut research and development at the EPA from $500 million to $281 million.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In June 2022, Clarke delivered a speech during a House of Commons debate saying that a recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was “really devastating”, noting the threats of sea level rise and biodiversity loss if global temperatures aren’t limited.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss. Eighteen of the 19 warmest years all have occurred since 2001, with the exception of 1998. The year 2016 ranks as the warmest on record.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

A treatment facility that receives oil field waste in Grand Bois, Louisiana, on September 26, located next to a predominantly Native American community where in the days following the storm, responding to physical damage from Hurricane Ida outweighed concerns of contamination from the also damaged facility. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

Other studies tell us that sea level rise is going to be worse than we thought, Antarctica is melting three times faster than a decade ago, and Greenland is losing ice quickly as well. And in a quieter move, a major real estate investor in Miami began pulling money out of coastal assets to avoid risk of sea level rise.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 20, 2020

Policy makers, investors, entrepreneurs and researchers interested in taking advantage of machine learning to help our climate will find this useful.

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